| HB4551 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the mineral estate of an unknown owner be sold to the legal surface owner at the fair market value of the mineral interest
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Energy Committee |
| HB4518 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to initiate a study of the feasibility of constructing a large lake or lakes in the southern counties of this state as a mechanism for revitalization of that area of our state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4556 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4601 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the licensing requirement for certain casino employees from a licensure to a registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4543 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose an excise tax on Schedule II controlled drugs on drug manufacturers and distributors selling these drugs in the state. The tax would fund substance abuse treatment and help pay public employees’ insurance premi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HJR112 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to limit persons serving as Senators or Delegates from serving more than sixteen total years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4541 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reinstate the film tax credits removed by this session of the Legislature in SB 263.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HCR74 | Intro
Sine Die | U. S. Army CPT Benjamin Ronk Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4530 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a special fund to receive revenue from severance taxes and other source related to minerals and then use the income from the fund to be distributed to the individual citizens of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Energy Committee |
| HB4536 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt feminine hygiene products and diapers from state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4613 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds from the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to the Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Fund, the Employment Attendant Care Program and to expand the network of Centers for Independent Living to help W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4560 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Tax Commissioner to include a line item on all personal income tax returns giving taxpayers the option to make a donation to veterans. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB4523 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make an exception to the prohibition preventing county and district officers, teachers and school officials from having a pecuniary interest in contracts when the contract is for goods or supplies, has been put out for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4521 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow employees to elect to receive compensation in the amount of the premium the State would otherwise pay for their health insurance under the Public Employees Insurance Agency and to sunset the Public Employees Insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB4582 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that students are not prohibited to possess a firearm or other deadly weapon on a school bus as defined in section one, article one, chapter seventeen-a of this code or in or on a public primary or secondary e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4598 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4594 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit public employees the right to collectively bargain. The bill provides for an exclusive representative. The bill provides a procedure. The bill sets forth matters subject to collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB4580 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Governor to include the state appropriation limitations the Legislature may not exceed when making aggregate General Revenue Fund appropriations in the budget bill submitted to the Legislature. It also requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4595 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide local governments the authority to place video cameras at intersections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4470 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt from the sales tax all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4549 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs. The bill also requires county boards to ensure that school counselors are not assigned administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HCR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the United States Congress to increase the Social Security death benefit from $255 to $1000
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB4591 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities to cancel municipal elections and appoint candidates by acclamation, if there is only one candidate running for each municipal office up for election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4587 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to cap the amount of contribution and out of pocket expenses for state employees for their Public Employee Insurance Agency health insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB4532 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal Code, §21-5-7 requiring a prime contractor to be responsible for wages and benefits owed by subcontractor, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB4322 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow an employer to extend workers' compensation insurance coverage to an employee engaged in volunteer fire fighting and allowing employers a tax credit for the cost of providing workers' compensation insurance to emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4596 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to file a petition or otherwise seek a ruling in any pending proceeding to terminate parental rights if an infant has tested positive for a Schedule I drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HB4538 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add a magistrate to serve Raleigh County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2841 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring board members to have attended a board meeting in order to be compensated for the meeting
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4575 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption from use tax for sales of tangible personal property, custom software, or services generated through affiliate marketing by a retailer who has no other nexus to the state. The bill clarifies that af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4604 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that proceeds from certain oil and gas wells that are due to persons whose name or address are unknown are to be kept in a special fund and if unclaimed within seven years the proceeds shall be transferred to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Energy Committee |
| HB4611 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund Act. The bill provides legislative findings and purpose, requiring the Director of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources to propose rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HB4590 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow adult adoptees who are residents of the state to nullify adoption orders of state courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4588 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish district courts of appeals to serve as an intermediate level of appeals in judicial matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4592 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add certain sanctions for violations of probation and parole. The bill provides for a system of graduated sanctions. The bill establishes the conditions of community supervision. The bill grants authority to impose grad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4537 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tobacco products excise tax with the increased revenue be used by the Public Employees Insurance Agency to reduce employees premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4578 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this to permit residential customers of electric utilities to deduct up to 50% of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Energy Committee |
| HB4579 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise provisions of state election law relating contributions for political campaigns, anonymous advertising to influence elections, and limits for various forms and circumstances of political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4593 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of special “Emergency Management” motor vehicle plates to authorized emergency management vehicles of the state or political subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4577 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit classroom teachers or school service personnel who at the time of a school merger who are the sole occupants of the same positions that will exist at the new school will maintain that position at the new school. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for magistrate to have ability to remove child from a home in which parent’s use of drugs is causing an unsafe environment for the child. Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HB4535 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish dates for the processing of paper checks. The bill also authorizes a fee for processing of checks outside the scheduled dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4531 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that deputy sheriffs be paid no less than $10.50 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4602 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the instructional term for students begins on the Tuesday after Labor Day and ends the Friday before Memorial Day. The bill provides an exception. The bill permits additional instruction minutes per day. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4572 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Police to update the Sex Offender Registry at least every three weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4547 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. The bill enters the state into the compact with all jurisdictions that also enact the compact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB4528 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the transfer and enrollment policies for students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4569 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a statutory right for siblings to petition a circuit or family court for visitation with their minor child siblings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a consumers sales and service tax exemption for motion pictures and other commercial film or audiovisual projects in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB4548 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for reporting by lobbyists, by requiring annual registration and requiring the reporting of a general description of subjects on which the lobbyist has lobbied. It also requires the disclosure of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
